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Western investors should allocate 30% of their portfolio assets to emerging markets, with riskier frontier markets such as parts of Africa and the Middle East accounting for 5% of their total exposure, veteran financier Mark Mobius has argued.

Banks such as Sberbank, First Bank of Nigeria and Thailand-based Siam Commercial Bank, which Franklin Templeton has invested in, have “had none of the problems of sub-prime or the derivatives scandal”, he said, also reiterating his bullishness on China.